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Walter de Beysun. de Beysun Walter King Beysun shows that his ancestors were seised...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/2/87

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Reference
SC 8/2/87
Date
[1305]
Description
Petitioners
Walter de Beysun.
Name(s)
de Beysun, Walter
Addressees
King
Nature of request
Beysun shows that his ancestors were seised of the manor of Church Eaton with woods and heaths pertaining. Because of a series of lengthy minorities the manor came into the king's hand, and the foresters of Gaule are now administering the woods and heath so that Beysun has nothing from them. He requests that the king grant an inquest of which woods and heath Adam de Beysun died seised, and what it is found that he died seised of the petitioner be able to enjoy.1)
Nature of endorsement
Coram rege.2) Let it be done by a writ of Chancery to the escheator that in his own person he should enquire of the contents of the petition and certify the king.
Places mentioned
Eton on Watling Street (Church Eaton), Staffordshire
Forest of Gaule (Gailey), [Staffordshire].
People mentioned
Adam de Beysun, great-grandfather of the petitioner
Adam [de Beysun], grandfather of the petitioner
Robert [de Beysun], father of the petitioner.
Note
The petition dates to the parliament held at Westminster from 28 February 1305 as a Latin summary is printed in Memoranda de Parliamento, p.91 (no.154).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 782
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), p.91 (no. 154) (Latin summary of petition)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.319a-b (no.136) (Latin summary of a later petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060200/

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